Now, regulators will decide if more oversight is necessary to meet its 2029 goal of rebuilding the Chesapeake Bay’s striped bass stock to non-overfished status. The Atlantic States Marine ...

The court ruled that it was the state the fishing entities should sue over regulations, not an interstate compact ...

In the sea as on land, climate change is driving shifts in the abundance and distribution of species. Scientists are just ...

As alluded to in the referenced article, sports fishermen contend that the menhaden fleet takes too many fish from the Chesapeake Bay, leaving the overfished striped bass without enough food.

According to Vogelbein, the mycobacterial species lurking in the Chesapeake are widespread ... Mycobacteriosis infection rate in Bay’s striped bass increasing, Bay Journal, http ...

A critical fish species in the Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic menhaden, could be declining rapidly. Or its numbers could be growing. There is no data on Atlantic menhaden populations in ...